Ok, thank to gloeglm, and epbernard, I am one step closer to trying out Hibernate. As you can see I am one step closer, so here is my problem. I am getting this exception when I try to update the schema on a Oracle9i database. This one looks ugly.

java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: Connection refused(DESCRIPTION=(TMP=)(VSNNUM=153092352)(ERR=12505)(ERROR_STACK=(ERROR=(CODE=12505)(EMFI=4))))
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:334)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:418)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.java:521)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:325)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:512)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:140)
at net.sf.hibernate.connection.DriverManagerConnectionProvider.getConnection(DriverManagerConnectionProvider.java:95)
at net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.execute(SchemaUpdate.java:106)
at contacts.InitHibernate.<init>(InitHibernate.java:27)
at contacts.InitHibernate.main(InitHibernate.java:39)

So if any of you Hibernate expert can give me a hand I will greatly appreciated.

Rama Itaurte.

This looks rather like a database configuration problem, can you connect to your db using normal JDBC Java Code?

Let me do that real fast and I will get back to you.

You